Conveyer



J. HABBART.

CONVEYER. APPLICATION FILED FEB. 25. 1920.

Patented Dec. 12, 1922.

2/6/2 10/ cit/5Z2 Zia/"Z Patented Ki e-c 151 112922.

Joana or restrain Lou .crirnn, Wisconsin.

ori inal application area May Se ial No. seams. Divid r-2; in this application filed February Serial no. cause.

certain new and useful Improvements in Conveyers; and l do hereby declare the follOWHI to be a full clear and exact descri tion of the invention, such as will enable,

others skilled in theartto which it appertains to make and use the same. Y

My invention relates to conveyers and embraces the embodiment of the grain or hay stacker divided from my copending appli cation filed May 28th, 1919, Serial Nunr ber 300,276 upon which Letters Patent No, 1,346,020 issued on July 6,1920.

An important object of the invention resides in the provision of aconveyer which is so mounted as to permit the same to be moved to any point about a vertical axis and can be adjusted to any angle with respect to the vertical axis.

A further object of the invention resides in the provision of a conveyerparticularly adapted for stacking hay and grain which may be conveniently placed in the fieldand which will. be rigidly supported, thestructure being such as to permit the conveyer to be readily adjusted upon both a verticaland horizontal axis, thus permitting the conveyer to be swung to a point in close proximity to the worlnnen where the conveyor.

will be loaded and the to the stack.

Still another object of the invention resides in the provision of a grain or hay elevator or conveyer which may be disposed at any angle with respect to the perpendicular and which includes a novel adjustable mounting for the drive shaft of the conveyer whereby the drive shaft will at all times be disposed in a horizontal plane and yet permit the conveyor to be adjusted to any desired angle.

Another general. object of the invention. resides in the provision of a conveyer of the above stated character which is simple in construction, consists of few parts and may be manufactured and sold at a comparatively small cost.

iVith the above and other objects and advantages in mind, my invention consists in the novel combination of elements, construction and arrangement of parts, operations grain or hay carried ion 18.

and specific features all of which to be here inafterenlarged upon and explicitly defined in the subjoined claims, the invention being illustrated in the attached drawings, wherein:

Figure 1 is a front elevation of the conveyer in operative position;

Figure 2 is a fragmentary side elevation of the same, and 7 Figure 3 is a transverse sectional View taken online 3-3 of Figure 1.

Referring in detail to the drawings wherein like characters of reference denote like parts in all the views, the numeral 5 designates a base which may be positioned inthe'field at any desired point and upon this base a vertically disposed bearing 6 is mounted in which is mounted a stub shaft '2", the latter being provided with a hinged joint Sintermediate its ends. I

The numeral 10 designates a rectangular conveyer frame. one end of which 'is rigidly mounted upon the upper end of the hinged stub shaft 7. By mounting the frame upon this hinged shaft it will be obvious that the frame may be swung to any angle with re spect to the perpendicular and in order to retain the frame in supported posit-ion there is provided a substantially inverted U- of the frame is a rotatable stem 12 carrying a plurality of radially disposed arms 13' to which are attached guy ropes or: cables 14: whichare extended downwardly and attached to any suitable objects.

Journalled in the frame 10 adjacent the ends thereof are conveyer rollers 15 about which an endless conveyer apron 16 is engaged and which is movable between the parallel sides of the frame. The lowermost roller 15 is provided with an outstanding shaft or pintle 17 which extends through one of the side walls of the frame and projects outwardly beyond the same and fixed to rotate with this shaft or pintle is a pin- In order to provide a driving connection for the shaft or pintle 17 that will always be parallel to the drive element of a suitable power source regardless the degree of the angle of the conveyer frame, there is provided a segmental plate 19 which is provided with an opening 20 at its narrow end shaft or pintle l7.

pulley wheel or other driveele'ment 23' that any is adapted to be operatively connected with suitable source of power (not shown).

In order to permit the plate 19 to be adjusted about its axis after the conveyer frame is set at the proper angle, an arcuate slot 24 is provided at the free end of the plate and this slot receives outstanding bolts 25 carried by the adjacent wall of the frame upon which bolts are engaged. wing nuts 26 which are threaded against the plate to lock the, same in a position where the shaft 22 will be disposed in a horizontal plane.

In changing the degree of inclination of the conveyer frame the wing nuts 26 are fiIStwUl'llOOSQIlBCl which will allow the bolts 25 to ride in the slot 24 tothe proper posi tion and the wing nuts then tightened against, the plate to lock the same against movement.

The structure set forth is a practicalembodiment of the invention but it will be statedthat the invention may be embodied in other constructions and that my limits of such embodiments are only governed by what is claimed.

What is claimed is W1. A conveying mechanism including a conveyer structure, means todispose said structure. at different angles, a dllVlIlg connection for. said structure, and means mounting said driving connection on said structure independent of its support for adjustment relatively to the structure and to a distant source of power. v

2. A conveying mechanism including a conveyer structure, means mounting said conveying structure at different angular positions, a driving connection forsaid structure, and means mounting said driving connection on said structure for adjustment in a substantially vertical plane independently of said mounting means and relatively to the structure and a distant source of power.

3. A conveying mechanism including a conveyer structure, means adjacent the base thereof mounting the same to assume different angular positions, supporting means for said structure at a distance above the base and having a swivel connection therewith, a driving connection on said structure independent of said first means and adjustable in a substantially vertical plane relatively thereto and to a distant source of power. j 4. A conveying mechanism including a conveyer structure, means to dispose said structure at difierent angles, a shaft to actuate the structure a platecapable of swivel movement on said shaft, a shaft for con nection to a source of powerjou'rnaled on said plate, and means to drive thefirst shaft from the second shaft.

5. A conveying mechanism including a conveyer structure, means to dispose said.

structure at different angles, a shaft to drive said structure, a gear wheel on said shaft, a plate for swivel movement on'said shaft intermediate the structure and gear wheel, means to secure said plate in adjusted position, a shaft for connection to a source of power, the second shaft being journaled on said plate, and a gear wheel on said second shaft in mesh with the first mentioned gear wheel.

In testimony whereof lv affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN HABBART.

Witnesses:

A. B, CURRAN, M. R. MUNSON. 

